The Nation: The Latest Scoop

Still months from post time, the 1972 Democratic presidential
sweepstakes have already recorded a scratch, Iowa Senator Harold
Hughes, and an unexpected dark-horse entry, Oklahoma Senator Fred
Harris. Assessing his chances recently, Harris noted that he must do
well in the early primaries, then "get close to the top two in the
polls." The top two by then? Ed Muskie, of course. And? "Scoop
Jackson."

When Senator Henry Martin Jackson, 59, began to toy with the idea of a
candidacy last spring, he was rated as having little better than an
outside chance...